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love when democrats talk about kitchen table issues as if trans people and immigrants don’t have kitchen tables 🙃

Genuinely a really informative and important piece. Anyone who follows me has probably seen this making the rounds, but I'll throw my two cents in to say you INDEED should watch it if you haven't, even if you're not in the UK On Nebula if you can!

Lmaoooo

Once again, the correct and obvious answer to "Will you vote for Gavin Newsom for president in November 2028?" is as follows: "I will not, because he will not be the Democratic nominee."

I am not actually surprised, but yet this figure made me go WHOOOOAAAAA anyway.

Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority

Quick reminder that Substack recently sent out push notifications to random users promoting a literal Nazi blog that they host. There's a reason why a lot of us don't share Substacks, or even visit sites hosted with them anymore.

Marie Kondo the SHIT out of your social media experience. If it does not spark joy or serve a purpose which you value, to the bin with it!

NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/metada...

I regret to report that I am back on my writing bullshit

bullying works ☺️

This is a 15 minute drive from me. If you're in central Indy, keep an eye out for actionable meetings and rallies coming up from orgs like @hoosiersrise.bsky.social . I'll see yall in the streets. #prosecuteice

In the latest in a string of privacy abuses from the chatbot, Grok provided porn performer Siri Dahl's full legal name and birthdate to the public, information she'd protected until now.

well I know what I'm posting when it finally happens:

Only deeply sick societies spend obscene amounts on chains, cages, walls, and all-seeing cameras as opposed to stuff that fosters beauty, joy, health, people who can think, and a natural world capable of sustaining it all.

Okay, THIS is the critique I was waiting for. I have been really fascinated by the way people talked about this movie, and this author went for the jugular. It’s not just that the director made a weird horny indulgent movie, it’s that she gutted the politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a great read. One thing I'd add is that if you're concerned about voter intimidation then do something about it! Volunteer to be a poll worker or observer. Find an organization that gets people to the polls. Engage in get out the vote efforts. There are more of us than there are of them.

Also - a thing I’ve been thinking about is that the Trump admin people thought of Minnesota as a lot of very nice white people who by virtue of being nice were not strong which is part of right wing ideology now

Trump’s FCC pressured CBS into not airing Stephen Colbert’s interview of James Talarico. Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

This is a subtle point but I’ll try it out as a “yes, and”: What Minnesota (not just Minneapolis) showed us is even bigger than “love your neighbor,” because in Minnesota, “neighbor” is a more expansive category than proximity. It’s anyone who needs help.

I’ve asked Omni and their owner, Stonepeak, several times if they are concerned they could be held liable for human-rights abuses onboard and facilitated by their planes. No response. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

We're coming upon the 100th anniversary of my great uncle Gilbert dying of measles. When I found this death certificate several years ago it felt like an historical artifact. The fact that parents are, today, getting these again is an atrocity for which RFK and that crowd should be imprisoned.

Republicans are successfully building out Orban's state media model here in the states. It's really not very subtle.

The "is it cake" era was a pysop preparing us for the uncertain reality of ai images. In this essay...

Talarico, who is Christian, has warned about the dangers of Christian Nationalism

Can confirm. My father mainlined Rush Limbaugh (rot in piss!) his entire career and I was a captive audience in the back seat until I left home at 18. To say that Jesse Jackson was presented as a literal demon would be underselling it.

Trump and Bondi and others in the administration want the public to believe that Christians (but only their approved kind) are persecuted in America for their beliefs (anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ+). But they just censored James Talarico, a Christian whose Christian beliefs challenge theirs.

I know I said this in my other thread, but it bears repeating: the censorship of Colbert's interview of Talarico is about the regime trying to dictate a state religion, and then controlling critiques of it.

maybe we could go one day without witnessing atrocities. maybe someday

Here it is, your moment of zen.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

Watch it. Share it. “Corporate media executives are selling out the First Amendment to curry favor with corrupt politicians.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59A

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)

Most people do not own a passport, stop requiring more of women then men. Stop forcing women to have all accountability and men to have very little.

Disingenuous bullshit. Women CAN figure it out, but it’s an additional administrative burden and WE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO. My mother recently had to track down the death certificate of a man she was married to for less than a year, 40+ years ago, before she could get a passport. It took weeks.

According to Martha and some other Fox News ladies, women should be insulted for *not* having to go through extra steps. bsky.app/profile/atru...

🙄 omg… Women shouldn’t have to do any more than a ma in order to vote.

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Happy Overlap Tuesday to Muslims and non-Eastern Christians

Meanwhile, in New Zealand, cops use their car guns overwhelming to shoot & kill disabled and mentally ill people, just like cops in the US "Over half of the mental health events (n = 11, 57.9%) resulted in fatalities" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

American cops: shoot and kill like 1500 of us every single year Scottish cop union, which isn't a real union because cops are not real workers: Hold my haggis

Guys, we’re making AI CEOs sad 😕 From the latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, with @emilymbender.bsky.social. From Episode 71: A Bad Case of Hype-itis.

I try to remind myself of this when I wonder if anything I do or say matters at all. People DO change their minds all the time. I see it in myself and others. It's just slow and often invisible while it's happening. So I focus on just saying my truth clearly, and not obsessing about impact.

Déja-vu — this was the same thing Trump did at the start of his first administration. Immediately after his first inauguration, his White House team literally *threw away* all the many volumes of pandemic-preparedness measures developed by the Obama Administration. That’s why COVID kicked our ass.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

Sincerely wish I could believe in hell